trickle

Just use tritty from trickle instead of pulling rust and tons of deps. https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle/ trickle can simulate an old PTS/ISDN connection speed too. Usage: tritty -b9600 cat outerlimits.vt Or: tritty -b1200 cat outerlimits.vt outerlimits.vt can fastly be found at the same repo of theattyr

this is great! I'm a regular user of the glasstty font + the 'tritty'[1] utility which emulates serial line I/O to create the 'true unix terminal' experience. Looking forward to the next post! ps: improved smeary-220 font would be great :b .. [1] https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle

I use 'tritty' (for slow terminal line) in combination with the directly-extracted font from the vt220 (for looks) for much the same effect in a more portable way. It doesn't emulate the CRT artifacts, but it's generally pretty good to emulate a 'real terminal' feeling. https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ The tritty timing was a bit off on OpenBSD last I tried (IIRC something about the sleep granularity being to large and so the emulation always going too slow), but on Linux & MacOS it works great. I just use a separate terminal config/start script and fire it up in 80x24 for small-scale admin-type tasks or when I feel like low level focus, and a regular setup for everything else..

Yes, I'm adding to the tangent here, but.. I use these 2: https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ in combination with a regular terminal application to achieve my retro vt220 VAX/BSD UNIX goodness. Doesn't have the phosphor fade like the above, but still feels pretty 'right'.

I was experimenting with pty's just the other day. I needed only I/O and window size updates, so it turned out fairly succinct: https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle/blob/master/tritty.c I'm not at all an experienced Unix programmer though so take it with a grain of salt. Would be happy to hear about any defects or possible improvements.

What: a 600 baud (configurable) pipe and terminal Why: to experience what it's like to do computing under such constraints, and to learn more about Unix programming. I find it interesting to see how programs like pagers, web browsers and such deal with screen updates. I'm aware of the role of curses in general terms but it's fascinating to see it in action. For example, running from a PuTTY session scrolling up in less(1) is very efficient as it reuses the scrollback buffer, but not on macOS' Terminal.app (as in the video). Any remarks or questions re. the concept or implementation are welcome. C programming is a hobby and a lot of this lower level Unix stuff was new territory for me. Source: https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle